ABC to return to Beijing with appointment of Allyson Horn as China correspondent
ABC will be a reporter in China for the first time in about five years after having to leave the previous reporter in September 2020.
When they say that ABC is “an important milestone”, Allyson Horn will receive a post in Beijing in the coming weeks.
“We are excited to have returned to China,” ABC News Director Justin Stevens, “We are excited.” He said.
“To bring the best scope of China and its people to our audiences, and it will significantly increase our reports of an Australian journalist who informs the place for us.”
In September 2020, Beijing -based ABC’s correspondent Bill Birtles had to leave the country after a five -day diplomatic stance on a national security case.
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The seven Chinese police officers came to Birdles in the middle of the night and demanded to submit to questioning.
ABC has not returned to the country since his departure.
Last year, ABC President Kim Williams said that “willing to restore our representation in Beijing”.
“We need to be in Beijing to provide open and regular reporting from the dynamic nation with many deep economic, political and diplomatic resonances in the world,” China said.
Long history in China
The first ABC office in China was opened in 1973, Paul Raffaele Mao’s first Australian journalist in China.
At that time, only a handful of foreign journalists were allowed in the country.
In the last 50 years, ABC has appointed more than two dozen Chinese correspondents, including TV presenter Jane Hutcheon in 1996, Eric Campbell in 2001, and last in 2015, including Birdles.
Suzanne Dredge, the international and domestic president of ABC, said that ABC journalists have been in China for more than half a century.
Bill Birtles is reporting from China. (ABC News)
ABC reporters in China, “Australian people, people, people, economy and China’s position on the international stage, focusing on the position of global importance,” he added.
Dredge said that Horn’s appointment strengthens the scope of ABC’s scope in Asia Pacific region.
“We are happy that the next episode will begin ABC’s long reporting heritage from Beijing,” he said.
Horn has more than ten years of experience for ABC News as radio, TV and online. His first foreign task was held in 2022 as the Middle East correspondent of ABC, based in Jerusalem.
Stevens, “Allyson Horn is a great journalist.”
“The reporting is brave and authorized and always determined to sound to ordinary people.”
